Let me just say, this entire website is full of liberal crap.
spectator
Wow we have some guileful warmongers here. This is not a definitional oxymoron but a rhetorical oxymoron, meaning the terms "just[ice]" and "war" are philosophically mutually exclusive - something this site seems to have little problem with ("bureaucratic efficiencies" has been certified here).
ern
The problem is that they *aren't* philosophically mutually exclusive. "Bureaucratic efficiencies" isn't an oxymoron either. A "rhetorical" oxymoron is basically something that isn't an oxymoron, but that some people *wish* was an oxymoron. But that doesn't change the reality that it still isn't one.
mrajmilne
Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined These two terms (just and war), are not incongruous or contradictory
bobbyboyce
How can this be an oxymoron, nothing is contradicted. It is a value judgement on war as is an unjust war.
oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."
